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Interpreting objects and collections /

Bringing together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pearce, Susan M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Colección:Leicester readers in museum studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Series preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Museum objects; The contextual analysis of symbolic meanings; Things ain't what they used to be; Objects as meaning; or narrating the past; Death's head, cherub, urn and willow; Behavioural interaction with objects; A view of functionalism; Culture as a system with subsystems; Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view; A view from the bridge; Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology; Interpreting material culture.